On August 1, 2023, CMS issued a Final Rule for fiscal year 2024 for the Medicare Program

This Rule will be published on August 28, 2023 in the Federal Register. A preliminary copy is available here.

This final rule will: revise the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) for operating and capital-related costs of acute care hospitals; make changes relating to Medicare graduate medical education (GME) for teaching hospitals; update the
payment policies and the annual payment rates for the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for inpatient hospital services provided by long-term care hospitals (LTCHs); and make other policy-related changes. This final rule also revises our regulations on the counting of days associated with individuals eligible for certain benefits provided by section 1115 demonstrations in the Medicaid fraction of a hospital’s disproportionate patient percentage (DPP) used in the disproportionate share hospital (DSH) calculation.

Visit the CMS Home Page for this Final Rule Here